June 23, 2026 - "We Are Pat," Mahesh Daas on data centers, and "A Night at the Disco"
About The Episode
Filmmaker Rowan Haber joins us to discuss the new documentary "We Are Pat," which revisits Julia Sweeney’s famously androgynous Saturday Night Live character through a 2026 lens. Once built around the question of whether Pat was a man or a woman, the film asks what that joke meant then, what it means now and whether Pat can be reconsidered or reclaimed. "We Are Pat" is available on Apple TV, Prime Video and Fandango at Home.
Mahesh Daas, president of Boston Architectural College and co-author of the graphic novella I, Nobot, returns for AI: Actual Intelligence. This month, he looks at data centers — the massive facilities powering the cloud and artificial intelligence — and the questions they raise about land, energy, water, noise and who pays for the infrastructure AI requires.
Music journalist Christian John Wikane joins us to discuss "A Night at the Disco," co-written with Alice Harris, a full-color look at the artists, producers and performers who turned disco from an underground club sound into a global movement. Wikane will appear at Provincetown Bookshop on Thursday, June 25, Mitchell’s Book Corner on Nantucket on Tuesday, July 7, and Edgartown Books on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, July 8.
